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Didn't the Holy Spirit come in me What is the primary purpose for
Q• when I became a Christian? Q• the power of the Holy Spirit?
Yes. At the moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit comes IN you. The primary purpose for the power of the Holy Spirit is to help
you to be an effective witness for Jesus Christ. God desires to
After Jesus Christ rose from the dead, He was seen by hundreds
strengthen you and to empower you for His purposes -- to obey
of people. On the day of the Resurrection, Jesus appeared to His
God by His grace and to live uprightly before Him.
closest disciples and breathed on them, saying, "Receive the Holy
Spirit" (John 20:22). At that moment, the disciples were born Acts 1:8 says, "You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit
again and the Holy Spirit came IN them. has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto Me, both
in Jerusalem, and in Judea, and in Samaria, and to the
God also desires for His Spirit to come UPON you with power. uttermost parts of the earth/'
Forty days after the Resurrection, right before Jesus ascended into God wants you to have His power to bring the Gospel of Jesus
heaven, He told His disciples, "Wait in Jerusalem until you are Christ to a lost and hurting world. The power of the Holy Spirit
endued with power from on high" (Luke 24:49). Then, in Acts 1:8 will help you to minister with God's boldness, both at home in
Jesus said, "You shall receive power when the Holy Ghost has your local community and wherever God may call you to go.
come upon you ..." These disciples were saved and the Holy
Spirit was already IN them, but God still had more. The disciples
were instructed to wait until God's Holy Spirit came UPON them " ...when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;
you shall be witnesses unto Me..."
with power. In the New Testament, this empowering of the Spirit
is often called the baptism in the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:11,
Mark 1:8, Luke 3:16, John 1:33, Acts 1:5, Acts 11:16).
. the baptism in the Holy Spirit
"If Christ be in you... His Spirit dwells in you... No man
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can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Ghost ..." Q, a gift for all believers?
(Romans 8:10-11)
"For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body ... In Acts 2:39, in reference to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on
and we were all made to drink of one Spirit." the Day of Pentecost, Peter proclaimed to the crowd, "This
(I Corinthians 12:3, 13) promise is for you, and for your children, for all who are afar off,
even as many as the Lord our God shall call."
"Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?"
(Acts 19:2) • If you have received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior,
this promise (of the Holy Spirit) is for you.
Even after our initial salvation there is always more to know
and to experience of God's infinite presence and power. • Throughout history, millions of Christians all throughout
the world have received the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
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